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Symantec: Archive and Compliance

With the current explosion in data growth, estimated to be over 125% per year, businesses are struggling with spiraling storage costs and manageability issues. While the volume of data continues to grow, it is not uncommon for 80% of stored data to be infrequently accessed–that is, not touched within the prior 30 days. As a result, customers are looking for ways to reduce the quantity of data kept on expensive primary storage by moving (archiving) it to less-expensive near-line storage, where it is still accessible if required.

Not only can archived data reside on less-expensive, but still accessible, storage, it does not need to be backed up as often or in the same way as day-to-day business-critical data. The ability to implement such an intelligent data storage strategy greatly simplifies management of the IT environment and reduces management costs (for every $1 spent on disk storage, $5 to $7 is spent managing that storage).